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Trying to breathe some life back into this subreddit, and so I will choose a topic that could possibly breathe some life back into Townsville's CBD.

What are peoples opinions about the proposed super stadium to be build in the CBD. I for one think that it could be just the boost the CBD needs. I think Townsville would be a better place if it have a live and bustling CBD.

The major problem I foresee is public transport. Everyone knows how bad the buses are in Townsville and there is no point in have a thriving CBD if it's too painful to actually get there, but overall I am excited to see Townsville grow.

I have lived here for long enough to have heard about the next "thing" that will boost the CBD... Light traffic through the mall, selling hanran park to developers, selling public carparks to developers, Mall re-development, finders street east re-development, paid parking to free up car spaces for shoppers.

A large stadium will not encourage me to go to the CBD

A large stadium will not encourage me to go to the football or basketball (the atmosphere at the football is pretty ordinary with the current stadium a larger one would be even worse).

Another convention center (yes we already have one) will not encourage me to go to the CBD

Some governments drive infrastructure investment from the private sector, why do tax payers need to invest in this? if its is such a great idea why is a private company not funding it?

I could think of several better uses of tax payer money than this project. An expense that comes to mind is a psychiatric ward that the QLD govt is closing down to save money, some of the patients are committing suicide as a result of being placed in the community all because we wish to save a few dollars. (source, a nursing friend who has lost her job at this ward and is now pretty depressed because some of her now ex patients are killing themselves)

I think that the super stadium project is being driven by a few individuals who have financial interests in this project and the majority of the community really don't care about it.

just to be clear I am not anti CBD / Sports, I occasionally go to the football & basketball, I did work in the CBD for several years

I would go to the CBD if a smart public transport system was in place. (I dont think that large, free carparks are the answer)

I would go to the football, basketball and other sporting events if the cost of entry and equally the cost /quality of food and drink was reasonable.

I would also go to these events if public transport to and from them was reasonable.

My opinion on implementing an effective strategy for public transport is not really from an educated point of view. I defiantly do not understand all of the numerical, engineering and social issues to best comment and improve on it.

I'm a bit of a fan of listening to experts (must be independent) in planning and infrastructure when it comes to this sort of thing.

The only thing that I think would help would be an actual leader who has the guts to make a long term decision (not short term self interest politics) and put a well thought out educated plan in place that would benefit us all. Continuing short term strategy of commuting via car has never worked for any city as it consumes massive amounts of money and resources. Just look at how poorly we have spent money on roads in the recent past of Townsville. Not many people commented on it at the time but the ring road was a classic example of short term political decision making and massive waste of our funds. Engineering experts used modeling to indicate that a 4 lane road would be best, even at the least if the bridge was made to be 4 lanes the roads could be added later. but to keep a financial year budget down a 2 lane bridge & road was built and then had to be immediately expanded when the road reached capacity in a few months of operation. Epic fail!

Check out all of the poor bastards sitting in their cars every day as they commute from the northern beaches, upper ross. What would our community be like if we reduced the time and money individuals spent on cars, commuting, taxes, rego etc and enabled people put those funds into other pursuits (I live in a 1 car family and am able to work less by just this one change to our lifestyle)

Imagine what our city would be like if 10-20 years ago someone implemented a strategy to move people around effectively

yes, it's an excellent idea, our population is booming and need a larger, more exciting entertainment centre. I just think, do we really need it, Townsville CBD is dead and the general population of Townsville is quite lazy (especially when it comes to Cowboys games). I mean we usually get under 10,000 to a game, is a super stadium appropriate?

Council they it would have a metric truckload of parking so that can only be a good thing for the city?!?! There is a lot of growth and projects in the city (we had a meeting with someone from council at work a few weeks ago) so I think it might end up being a place people want to go.

I think even with the stadium, parking will be an issue, a few of the projects are high density housing (no shock there I know) but where will those people park? Plus all the people who work in the city? The two new buildings in flinders street will be moving hundreds of people into the city who will need to park... So where do the customers park??

Anyway, I think if they do it right, the city could be an awesome place, fingers crossed.